Ryo Suda (Tsuchimatsu Lab., a second-year doctoral student; left), Ayano Horiuchi (Tsuchimatsu Lab., a JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow; right), and Satsuki Matsumoto (Tsuchimatsu Lab., a first-year master’s student; center) received presentation awards at the Young Researchers’ Meeting of the Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Innovative Plant Reproductive Systems,” held on October 3–4, 2026. Congratulations! We wish them further success in the future.

Award title: Oral Presentation Award
Presentation title:Genetic Basis of Self-Compatibility and Its Impact on Genome Evolution in Japanese Arabidopsis halleri
Awardee: Ryo Suda (Tsuchimatsu Lab., a second-year doctoral student)
Co-authors: Mathieu Genete, Adrián Contreras-Garrido, Yuki Tsuchikane, Shosei Kubota, Shin-Ichi Morinaga, Yinghong He, Naoko Ishikawa, Yoshihisa Suyama, Xavier Vekemans, Sylvain Billiard, Vincent Castric, and Takashi Tsuchimatsu

Award title: Poster Presentation Award
Presentation title: Towards Understanding the Evolutionary Process of the Selfing Syndrome in Natural Petunia Populations
Awardee: Ayano Horiuchi (Tsuchimatsu Lab., a JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
Co-authors: Hajime Nakayama, Sho Ikeyatsu, Yuki Tsuchikane, Hitoshi Watanabe, Koichi Uehara, and Takashi Tsuchimatsu

Award title: Poster Presentation Award
Presentation title: Sexual Differentiation in Symplocos of the Ogasawara Islands: A Comparison with Closely Related Species in Honshu
Awardee: Satsuki Matsumoto (Tsuchimatsu Lab., a first-year master’s student)
Co-authors: Takefumi Tanaka, Atsushi Kawakita, and Takashi Tsuchimatsu

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